Journal of Strategy and Management: Volume 9 Issue 1

Determining strategic shifts between codification and personalization in operational environments

Krishna Venkitachalam, Hugh Willmott

The purpose of this paper is to indicate that managers responsible for decision making often have a limited appreciation of strategic shifts between codification and…

Does scheduling matter? When unscheduled decision making results in more effective meetings

Boris Eisenbart, Massimo Garbuio, Daniele Mascia, Federica Morandi

Managers spend a great deal of time in meetings making decisions critical to organisational success, yet the design aspects of meetings remain largely understudied. The purpose of…

Modularizing business models: between strategic flexibility and path dependence

Christian Gärtner, Oliver Schön

The purpose of this paper is to explicate why and how modularization of business models can lead to path dependence or strategic flexibility, thus either inhibiting or favoring…

Open innovation in SMEs: a systematic literature review

Mokter Hossain, Ilkka Kauranen

– The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the extant literature on open innovation (OI) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The customer-centric logic of multi-product corporations

Lalit Manral

The purpose of this paper is to articulate a customer-centric logic to explain the strategic behavior of multi-product corporations whose portfolio of complementary product…

Organizational slack in declining firms and surviving firms

Mahua Guha

There is a preponderance of evidence in the established literature that declining firms have lower levels of organizational slack when compared with surviving firms. To further…